A FAMILLE VERTE MONTH CUP ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FAMILLE VERTE MONTH CUP ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Delicately enamelled with a flowering Chinese rose, yuegui, springing up from low rockwork with three insects in flight, the reverse with a seasonal couplet terminating with a seal mark shang, appreciation
2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) diam

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The couplet reads:
Busui qianzhong jin, dufang yinian hong
Unlike the myriad blossoms that flower and wither,
the rose alone is perennially red.

(US$12,000-16,000)

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